OctoPrint/testing

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Testing av OctoPrint.

Manual installation

Setup a SD card

Download Raspbian Lite (currently Raspbian Buster Lite) and put onto a SD card (or microSD card if that is what your Raspberry Pi requires).

Before putting the SD card into the Pi, do the following changes

• allow ssh by creating a file named 'ssh' on the boot partition (cd to mountpoint of boot partition, then do touch ssh)
• mount the rootfs partition and change the hostname (default is raspberrypi) by editing the files etc/hostname and etc/hosts (only the line with the same name ('raspberrypi')on that partition. The name will show up on the network as hostname.local, so use hostname-print for example (shows up on the network as hostname-print.local). If you mount it on a machine running Linux, you can use sudo vi etc/hostname, and sudo nano etc/hosts to edit the files.

Initial setup

Insert the SD card into your Pi, connect it to a network and power it up. From your machine, you can find out when the machine is available on the network with Wikipedia:ping (networking utility), example ping hostname-print.local.

ssh into the machine (ssh pi@hostname-print.local) withnthe default user and password.

1. change the password: passwd
2. check if the user is a member of the required groups, if not, add it. sudo usermod -a -G tty pi, sudo usermod -a -G dialout pi.

OctoPrint install

OctoPrint needs a few things installed before you can install it.

install prerequisites

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python-pip python-dev python-setuptools python-virtualenv git libyaml-dev build-essential

install OctoPrint

This install is done as the user that OctoPrint should run as.

cd
mkdir OctoPrint
cd OctoPrint
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install pip --upgrade
pip install octoprint

Start OctoPrint manually

To start OctoPrint manually, log in as the user and do ~/OctoPrint/venv/bin/octoprint serve. When you want to end the OctoPrint server, use Ctrl-C to stop it.

the OctoPrint server is available on port 5000, example http://hostname-print.local:5000/

OctoPrint config files

OctoPrint config files lives in ~/.octoprint.

config.yaml (and config.backup)
users.yaml

Printer profiles

printerProfiles/_default.profile
printerProfiles/prusa_i3_mk3s.profile

there are other directories and files in the ~/.octoprint directory too.